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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag Crops & Agronomy
A short rotation with multi species cover crops?
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<blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 7001" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>It seems reasonably widely accepted that true no-till doesn't work if you have a short rotation with only a few different types of crops. Cover crops help increase the diversity and can bring in different classes of crop (warm season broadleaves etc.) that were formerly lacking in the rotation. A multi-species cover crop is better than a single species cover crop according to a number of people as this mimics Nature more closely. These claim is intuitively compelling although I haven't seen any concrete in field evidence. Let's assume though that the above is roughly true.</p><p></p><p>Given the above what I wonder whehter it would be possible to stick to a pretty tight rotation if multi-species cover crops were included. For example:</p><p></p><p>WW - WOSR - (summer cover) - WW - (overwinter cover) - Spring Beans</p><p></p><p>Put another way, can a tight rotation with multi-species cover crops be just as good as a wider / longer rotation involving many different main cash crops?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feldspar, post: 7001, member: 386"] It seems reasonably widely accepted that true no-till doesn't work if you have a short rotation with only a few different types of crops. Cover crops help increase the diversity and can bring in different classes of crop (warm season broadleaves etc.) that were formerly lacking in the rotation. A multi-species cover crop is better than a single species cover crop according to a number of people as this mimics Nature more closely. These claim is intuitively compelling although I haven't seen any concrete in field evidence. Let's assume though that the above is roughly true. Given the above what I wonder whehter it would be possible to stick to a pretty tight rotation if multi-species cover crops were included. For example: WW - WOSR - (summer cover) - WW - (overwinter cover) - Spring Beans Put another way, can a tight rotation with multi-species cover crops be just as good as a wider / longer rotation involving many different main cash crops? [/QUOTE]
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